Voluntary register for health promotion practitioners
The UKHPR (United Kingdom Public Health Register) has announced the launch of a new voluntary register for health promotion practitioners. Sitting alongside the UKPHR’s established register for members of the core public health workforce, the new register is being...
From 5 a day to 10 a day
Five portions of fruit and vegetables every day is good for you but 10 is much better and could prevent 7.8 million premature deaths worldwide. This is the finding of a recent study by Imperial College London. !0 portions a day is equated to 800g, double the current...
Sex education now mandatory for all secondary schools in England
The Institute strongly commends the Education Secretary, Justine Greening, who tabled an amendment to extend statutory ‘relationships and sex education’ to all secondary schools and ‘relationships education’ to all primary schools. On March 1st the Education...